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Identity
Person No.
19866
Service No.
Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Henry Goold
Initials
H G
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
31
Military Service
Rank
Captain
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause of Death
Killed in action
Grave Reference
Additional Information
Notes

Son of Henry and Margaret Pearce; husband of Ina Pearce, of 77A, Nightingale Lane, Balham, London. Born Hurstpierpoint, Sussex June 1886; resided in Rhodesia prior to the outbreak of the Great War; served as a Corporal in the Northern Rhodesian Rifles, from 10.12.1914; discharged 30.4.1915 to return to the United Kingdom to take a commission in the Royal Engineers; served on the Western Front with the 171st Tunnelling Company, wounded 25.4.1917; the 171st Tunnelling Company were involved in the laying of 24 mines as part of the battle of Messine, from June 1917

Citation

LG Sup 1 January 1918 pg. 43

External Source
Unknown
South African War Graves Project

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